Arab. “’Atík”: the superficial similarity of the words has produced a new noun in Arabic, _e.g._ Abú Antíká = father of antiquities, a vendor of such articles mostly modern, “brand-new and intensely old.”
In the text “Ashkhás” (plural of Shakhs) vulgarly used, throughout India, Persia and other Moslem realms, in the sense of persons or individuals. For its lit. sig. see vols. iii. 26; and viii. 159. The H. V. follows Galland in changing to pedestals the Arab. thrones, and makes the silken hanging a “piece of white satin” which covers the unoccupied base.
The blessed or well-omened: in these days it is mostly a servile name, _e.g._ Sidi Mubárak Bombay. See vol. ix. 58, 330.
In the text “Mín” for “Man,” a Syro-Egyptian form, common throughout this MS.
“Ay Ni’am,” an emphatic and now vulgar expression.
The MS. here has “’Imárah” = a building, probably a clerical error for Maghárah, a cave, a souterrain.
Arab. “Zahab-ramlí,” explained in “Alaeddin.” So Al-Mutanabbi sang:—
“I become not of them because homed in their ground: ✿ Sandy earth is the gangue wherein gold is found.”
Walímah prop. = marriage-feast. For the different kinds of entertainments see vols. vi. 74; viii. 231.
Arab. Mukattaf al-Yadayn, a servile posture: see vols. iii. 218; ix. 320.
Here the Arabic has the advantage of the English; “Shakhs” meaning either a person or an image. See supra, p. 12.
Arab. “Kawárijí” = one who uses the paddle, a paddler, a rower.
In the Third Kalandar’s Tale (vol. i. 143) Prince ’Ajíb is forbidden to call upon the name of Allah, under pain of upsetting the skiff paddled by the man of brass. Here the detail is omitted.
Arab. “Wahsh,” which Galland translates “Tiger,” and is followed by his Hind. translator.
Arab. “Laffa ’l-isnayn bi-zulúmati-h,” the latter word = Khurtúm, the trunk of an elephant, from Zalm = the dewlap of sheep or goat.
In the text “Yámin,” a copyist’s error, which can mean nothing else but “Yasimín.”
The H. V. rejects this detail for “a single piece of mother-o’-pearl twelve yards long,” etc. Galland has _une seule écaille de poisson_. In my friend M. Zotenberg’s admirable translation of Tabari (i. 52) we read of a bridge at Baghdad made of the ribs of Og bin ’Unk (= Og of the Neck), the fabled King of Bashan.